$1,135 and no revocation of hunting privileges; that was the punishment imposed upon a wolf hunter in northwest Montana that illegally killed two wolves near Glacier National Park last month. The State of Montana also failed to include those two wolves

Police in Peru have arrested four people, three men and a woman, whom they allege are members of a gang suspected of killing up to 60 people in order to extract their body fat to sell for thousands of dollars a litre to foreign markets to make cosmetics

In March of 1861, a new president had just been sworn in and the nation was on the brink of civil war. Yet Abraham Lincoln still found a moment to come to the defense of a kid whose schoolmates were picking on him.

U.S. funding for UNHCR in 2009 has been substantially more than that of the next eight contributors combined. For its part, Saudi Arabia kicks in about 1 percent of the U.S. total. Is that fair?

The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week. A temple in Nepal will host what is thought to be the world's biggest

About 15,000 years ago, North America was home to an astonishing number of large plant-eating mammals -- giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths. A thousand years later, they were all gone, wiped from the face of the Earth with sudden finality. Scientists

On Oct. 28, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, the largest military budget in U.S. history.

It is exceedingly rare to hear anything positive regarding animals and Kentucky law. Due to its glaring lack of adequate animal protection laws, the Bluegrass State has had the unenviable distinction as "best state in the country to be an animal abuser"

An undercover investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission resulted in 12 arrests this week for the illegal purchase and possession of foxes and coyotes so the animals could be chased by dogs inside fenced enclosures.

"As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs "dueling Fort Hood investigations," will they confront the hard truth of the Islamic angle?...Are Americans ready for that?"